Anyone who feels strongly enough about freedom of speech should allow the remarks made about homosexuality by Iris Robinson MP to remain unpunished.

You can vote here:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Iris-is-right/

Hopefully it will encourage other MPs not to be afraid to share their views in future.

Do you agree with Harry Cohen MP, the member for Leyton and Wanstead, that:

• The US is attempting to force civil war in Iraq?
  
• The British are helping the US take over Iraq's assets?
• US/UK failure to ensure security, humanitarian aid and economic investment?
• US to stay in Iraq for the long term to rob the country of its resources?

His article is on the Socialist Campaign Group News website.

Please vote in the poll.

Labour MP, Bob Marshall-Andrews, is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association, but despite this, I like his maverick style. He has some honour and sense of fairness: traits not normally associated with many of his colleagues of late.

On his official website at epolitix.com, we are reminded of the unceremonious ejection of Walter Wolfgang from the 2005 Labour Conference with an article entitled, "Our PM Is Nothing But A Bully - Just Ask Old Walter."

The frail 82-year old Mr Wolfgang, who has devoted his life to the Labour Party, had the audacity to propose that Jack Straw was being less than honest about Iraq.

Mr Marshall-Andrews writes: 'For this offence Mr Wolfgang is seized by a massive, apparently anonymous "steward", physically manhandled from his own conference and detained by police as a suspected terrorist. A nearby delegate, attempting to intervene, is himself assaulted by another massive example of New Labour's finest. Hours later, Blair delivers an apology wholly typical of the man. "I'm sorry," he says, "but I wasn't there."'